Monthly Archives: September 2009

JPA Best Practices and efficient research

By Ben | Published: September 18, 2009
Recently, in the course of a evaluation for a project to switch their persistence provider I was doing some JPA research and came across this exhaustive presentation from Carol McDonald: JPA Best Practices. I am working with JPA now quite some time, but always found that the documentation is not very detailed for such an [...]
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Firefox 3.5 hanging? slow? buggy?

By Ben | Published: September 7, 2009
Like many other users I recently had slow-down problems using the new firefox 3.5.x. Seems like the Skype Plugin was causing the issues. Disabling it worked for me. There is an interesting thread on the issue. Skype apparently is having problems making reasonable quality plugins for quite some time. Mozilla was aware of it but [...]
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Long development cycles of compiled languages – the real killer

By Ben | Published: September 4, 2009
Ever asked yourself what are the reasons for the rise of scripting  languages like PHP, Ruby, Groovy for web development in the last couple of years? Let’s take the concrete case of Java. Common critiques of the language and the API’s, and the J2EE/JEE frameworks were/are in a loose historical order: performance – too slow: this [...]
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